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Definitions

• the present invention relates to the selective absorption of electromagnetic radiation by small particles, and more particularly to solid and liquid composite materials that absorb strongly within a chosen, predetermined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as ultraviolet band, while remaining substantially transparent outside this region.
• a chosen, predetermined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum such as ultraviolet band
• the effect of exposure to ultraviolet radiation of most organic and some inorganic substances can be damaging.
• sun shields, umbrellas, clothing, windows, lotions, and creams are used. Protection of skin against ultraviolet radiation has, in the past, been achieved with sun lotions containing organic substances such as melanin, benzophenore,
• Patimate-O® avobenzone
• inorganic compounds such as zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.
• zinc oxide zinc oxide
• titanium dioxide inorganic compounds
• the present invention is an ultraviolet radiation- absorbing material that comprises particles constructed of an outer shell and an inner core wherein either the core or the shell comprises a conductive material.
• the conductive material has a negative real part of the dielectric constant in a predetermined spectral band.
• the core comprises a first conductive material and the shell comprises a second conductive material different from the first conductive material; or (ii) either the core or the shell comprises a refracting material with a refraction index greater than about 1.8.
• Sunscreens, UV blockers, filters, ink, paints, lotions, gels, films, textiles, wound dressings and other solids, which have desired ultraviolet radiation-absorbing properties may be manufactured utilizing the aforementioned material.BRIEF
• Fig. 1 is a plot of the real parts of the dielectric constants of TiN, HfN, and ZrN as functions of wavelength.
• Fig. 2 is a 3 -dimensional plot that shows absorption cross-section of ZrN spheres as a function of both radius and wavelength.
• Fig. 3 is a 3-dimensional plot that shows the absorption of a specified amount of TiN spheres as a function of both radius and wavelength.
• Fig. 4 is a plot of absorption cross-section of TiN spheres in three different media with different refraction indices.
• Fig. 5 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with titanium nitride cores and silver shells.
• Fig. 6 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with ZrN cores and silver shells.
• Fig. 7 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with ZrN cores and aluminum shells.
• Fig. 8 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with aluminum cores and TiO 2 shells in the UV range.
• Fig. 9 is a plot of light transmission as a function of wavelength through a coating containing spheres with Al cores and TiO 2 shells of variable thickness at the indicated load factor.
• Fig. 10 is a plot of light transmission as a function of wavelength through a coating containing spheres with Al cores and TiO 2 shells of the indicated thickness for a range of load factors.
• Fig. 11 is a plot of light transmission as a function of wavelength through a coating containing spheres with Al cores and Si shells of variable thickness at the indicated load factor.
• Fig. 12 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with Al cores and aluminum oxide shells of variable thickness.
• Fig. 13 is a plot of absorption (solid) and extinction (dash) cross-sections of spheres with Al cores and silver shells of variable thickness.
• Fig. 14 is a schematic representation of the manufacturing process that can be used to produce the particles of the present invention.
• Fig. 15 shows a detailed schematic diagram of the nanoparticles production system.
• Fig. 16 depicts the steps of particle formation.
• An electrical conductor is a substance through which electrical current flows with small resistance.
• the electrons and other free charge carriers in a solid can to possess only certain allowed values of energy. These values form levels of energetic spectrum of a charge carrier. In a crystal, these levels form groups, known as bands.
• the electrons and other free charge carriers have energies, or occupy the energy levels, in several bands.
• charge carriers tend to accelerate and thus acquire higher energy.
• a charge carrier such as electron
• the uppermost band is only partially filled with electrons.
• semiconductors have their uppermost band filled. Semiconductors become conductors through impurities, which remove some electrons from the full uppermost band or contribute some electrons to the first empty band. Examples of metals are silver, aluminum, and magnesium. Examples of semiconductors are Si, Ge, InSb, and GaAs.
• a semiconductor is a substance in which an empty band is separated from a filled band by an energetic distance, known as a band gap. For comparison, in metals there is no band gap above occupied band. In a typical semiconductor the band gap does not exceed about 3.5 eV.
• the electrical conductivity can be controlled by orders of magnitude by adding very small amounts of impurities known as dopants. The choice of dopants controls the type of free charge carriers. The electrons of some dopants may be able to acquire thermal energy and transfer to an otherwise empty "conduction band" by using the levels of the uppermost band. Other dopants provide the necessary unoccupied energy levels, thus allowing the electrons of an otherwise full band to leave the band and reside in the so-called acceptor dopant.
• the free charge carriers are positively charged “holes” rather than negatively charged electrons.
• Semiconductor properties are displayed by the elements of Group IV as well as compounds that include elements of Groups III and V or II and VI. Examples are Si, ALP, and InSb.
• a dielectric material is a substance that is a poor conductor of electricity and, therefore may serve as an electrical insulator.
• the conduction band is completely empty and the band gap is large so that electrons cannot acquire higher energy levels. Therefore, there are few, if any, free charge carriers.
• the conducting band is separated from the valence band by a gap of greater than about 4 eV. Examples include porcelain (ceramic), mica, glass, plastics, and the oxides of various metals, such as TiO 2 .
• An important property of dielectrics is a sometimes relatively high value of dielectric constant.
• a dielectric constant is the property of a material that determines the relative its electrical polarizability and also affects the velocity of light in that material.
• the wave propagation speed is roughly inversely proportional to the square root of the dielectric constant.
• a low dielectric constant will result in a high propagation speed and a high dielectric constant will result in a much slower propagation speed.
• the dielectric constant is analogous to the viscosity of the water.
• the dielectric constant is a complex number, with the real part giving reflective surface properties, and the imaginary part giving the radio frequency absorption coefficient, a value that determines the depth of penetration of an electromagnetic wave into media.
• Refraction is the bending of the normal to the wavefront of a propagating wave upon passing from one medium to another where the propagation velocity is different. Refraction is the reason that prisms separate white light into its constituent colors. This occurs because different colors (i.e., frequencies or wavelengths) of light travel at different speeds in the prism, resulting in a different amount of deflection of the wavefront for different colors.
• the amount of refraction can be characterized by a quantity known as the index of refraction.
• the index of refraction is directly proportional to the square root of the dielectric constant.
• Total internal reflection At an interface between two transparent media of different refractive index (glass and water), light coming from the side of higher refractive index is partly reflected and partly refracted. Above a certain critical angle of incidence, no light is refracted across the interface, and total internal reflection is observed.
• Plasmon (Froehlich) Resonance is a phenomenon which occurs when light is incident on a surface of a conducting materials, such as the particles of the present invention. When resonance conditions are satisfied, the light intensity inside a particle is much greater than outside. Since electrical conductors, such as metals or metal nitrides, strongly absorb electromagnetic radiation, light waves at or near certain wavelengths are resonantly absorbed. This phenomenon is called plasmon resonance, because the absorption is due to the resonance energy transfer between electromagnetic waves and the plurality of free charge carriers, known as plasmon. The resonance conditions are influenced by the composition of a conducting material.
• the weakly bound or unbound electrons in a high frequency electric field act basically in the same way.
• Electronic polarization i.e. a measure of the responsiveness of electrons to external field, is therefore negative. Since in elementary electrostatics it is known that the polarization is proportional to ⁇ - 1 , where ⁇ is a so-called "dielectric constant" (actually, a function of wavelength, or frequency, of an external field), it follows that ⁇ has to be smaller than one - it may in fact even be negative.
• the dielectric constant is a complex number, proportional to the index of refraction, hi tables of optical constants of metals one finds usually tabulated the real and imaginary parts of the index of refraction, N and K, as a function of wavelength.
• E outs ide is the surrounding field
• Ei ns i e is the field inside the sphere
• ⁇ imide and ⁇ outside are the relative dielectric constants inside the sphere and in the surrounding medium, respectively. From the above equation it is apparent that the field inside the sphere would become infinitely large if the condition ⁇ S outside " * " S inside ⁇ 0 would be satisfied. Since the dielectric constants are not real, the field would become large but not infinite. In case of an oscillating electric field that is apart of the light wave, that large field would of course also result in a correspondingly large absorption by the metal. This field enhancement is the cause of strong absorption peaks produced in metals nanospheres.
• ⁇ medium is the dielectric constant of the medium
• ⁇ real and ⁇ imag are the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant of the metal sphere.
• x 2 ⁇ rN medium / ⁇
• the Froehlich resonance frequency is determined by the position where the epsilon (real) curves intersect the line marked "-2 epsilon (medium)".
• the Shape and the Size of a Particle The shape of the particle is important.
• the field inside an oblate particle, such as a disk, in relation to the field outside of that particle is very different from the field inside spherically shaped particle. If the disk lies perpendicular to the direction of the field lines then p -t outside J-T inside outside inside
• the shape of the particle is preferably substantially spherical in order to prevent anisotropic absorption effects.
• increase in particle size shifts the absorption peak slightly towards the red, i.e. longer wavelengths.
• Larger particles also become less effective as absorbers because the material occupying the innermost portion of the sphere never sees the electromagnetic radiation that they might absorb because the outer layers have already absorbed the incident resonance radiation. For larger spheres the resonance character gradually vanishes.
• the absorption and extinction cross sections start to be less pronounced as the size of the sphere grows. Absorption and especially extinction shifts also more to the longer wavelengths.
• Figure 2 shows a 3 -dimensional plot of absorption cross-section of ZrN plotted against radius and wavelength. To actually determine optimal particle sizes, it is best to plot transmission, absorption and extinction. While the absorption cross-section decreases for small particles, there are many more small particles present per unit weight than big particles. Interestingly, it appears that small particles of a given total mass absorb just about as well as somewhat larger particles with the same total mass. Most importantly small particles do not scatter.
• the Effect of the Media there is also an absorption shift that depends upon the dielectric constant of the medium carrying the particles of the present invention.
• the Drude theory gives an approximate value for the real part of the dielectric constant that varies as 1 plasma 'r ra ejonal ⁇ — 1 x 2 V where v plasma is the so-called plasma frequency and v is the frequency of the light wave.
• the plasma frequency usually lies somewhere in the ultra violet portion of the spectrum.
• Gold spheres have an absorption peak near 5200 A.
• TiN, ZrN and HfN, which look golden colored, have a peaks at shorter and longer wavelengths as we shall show below. TiN colloids have been seen to exhibit blue colors due to green and red absorption.
• the abso ⁇ tion maximum occurs at 6000 A, and we increase the dielectric constant of the medium by .25, then the abso ⁇ tion peak shifts up by 500 A to 6500 A. If we decrease the dielectric constant then the abso ⁇ tion shifts to shorter wavelengths.
• the present invention relates to composite materials capable of selective abso ⁇ tion of electromagnetic radiation within a chosen, predetermined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum while remaining substantially transparent outside this region. More specifically, in the preferred embodiment, the instant invention provides small particles, said particles having an inner core and an outer shell, wherein the shell encapsulates the core, and wherein either the core or the shell comprises a conductive material.
• the conductive material preferably has a negative real part of the dielectric constant of the right magnitude in a predetermined spectral band.
• the core comprises a first conductive material and the shell comprises a second conductive material different from the first conductive material
• either the core or the shell comprises a refracting material with a large refraction index approximately greater than about 1.8.
• the particle of the instant invention comprises a core, made of a conducting material, and a shell, comprising a high- refractive index material
• the particle comprises a core of high-refractive index material and a shell of conductive material
• the particle of the present invention comprises a core, composed of a first conducting material, and a shell comprising a second conducting material, with the second conductive material being different from the first conducting material.
• the particle exhibits an abso ⁇ tion cross- section greater than unity in a predetermined spectral band
• the particle is spherical or substantially spherical, having a diameter from about 1 nm to about 150 nm.
• the preferred shell thickness is from about 1 nm to about 20 nm. Any material having a refractive index greater than about 1.8 and any material possessing a negative real part of the dielectric constant in a desirable spectral band may be used to practice the present invention, hi the preferred embodiment these materials comprise Ag, Al, Mg, Cu, Ni, Cr, TiN, ZrN, HfN, Si, TiO 2 , ZrO 2 , Al 2 O 3 and others.
• the shift of the resonance abso ⁇ tion across a predetermined spectral band is achieved, in one embodiment, by varying the thickness of the shell, and in another embodiment, by varying the materials of the shell and or the core. In yet another embodiment, both may be varied. If two conducting materials are used, one in the core and the other in the shell, the particle will usually have resonance abso ⁇ tion at a wavelength that is between the peaks of each of the conducting materials. This makes it possible, by selecting the materials of the core and of the shell and/or by adjusting the ratio of the thickness of the shell to the diameter of the core, to shift the peak of abso ⁇ tion in either direction across both visible and UV bands.
• Shells are 0 nm, 1 nm, and 2 nm thick.
• Figure 7 shows that the resonant abso ⁇ tion peak of a ZrN core, radius 22 nm, coated with an aluminum shell, can be shifted depending on the thickness of the shell. The shift is toward the shorter wavelengths.
• Shells are 0 nm, 1 nm, and 2 nm thick.
• the core comprises a conducting material and the shell comprises a high refractive index material. This embodiment is illustrated in Figure 8, which shows abso ⁇ tion (solid line) and extinction (dashed line) cross-sections for aluminum cores, radius 18 nm, coated with a shell of TiO 2 of 2 nm, 4 nm, and 5 nm.
• the abso ⁇ tion peak may be shifted across the UV spectral band without excessive abso ⁇ tion in the visible range.
• the particles are dispersed in a carrier at a desired mass loading factor.
• the particles comprising aluminum cores, radius 18 nm, coated with shells of titanium oxide of variable thickness (2 nm, 3nm, 4 nm, or 5 nm), dispersed in a carrier at a mass loading factor of about 5 x 10 "6 g/cm 2 , substantially block the transmission of radiation in the ultraviolet range, while remaining transparent in the visible range.
• the present invention contemplates a range of mass loading factors that the particles can be dispersed at.
• Figure 10 illustrates that the preparation of a carrier and particles of aluminum cores and titanium oxide shells (core radius 18 nm, shell thickness 4 nm) remain absorbent in the UV range at loading factors that vary from 2.0 x 10 "5 g/cm 2 to 2.5 x 10 "6 g/cm 2 .
• particles of aluminum core, radius 18 nm, coated with a silicon shell of variable thickness (1 nm, 2 nm, 3 nm, or 4 nm) are dispersed in a carrier at the mass loading factor of about 2.5 x 10 "6 g/cm 2 .
• Such preparation is substantially absorbent in the UV range, yet substantially transparent in the visible band. For minimizing visible abso ⁇ tion, the thinner coating of 1 nm to 2 nm are preferred.
• Figure 12 shows a particularly simple method of tailoring UV abso ⁇ tion by oxidizing Al nanop article core.
• the present invention can be used in a wide range of applications that include blockers, filters, ink, paints, lotions, gels, films, solid materials, and wound dressings that absorb within the ultraviolet spectral band. It should be noted that resonant nature of the radiation abso ⁇ tion by the particles of the present invention can result in (a) abso ⁇ tion cross-section greater than unity and (b) narrow-band frequency response. These properties result in an "optical size" of a particle being greater than its physical size, which allows reducing the loading factor of the colorant. Small size, in turn, helps to reduce undesirable radiation scattering. Low loading factor has an effect on the economy of use. Narrow-band frequency response allows for superior quality filters and selective blockers.
• the pigments based on the particles of the present invention do not suffer from UV-induced degradation, are light-fast, non-toxic, resistant to chemicals, stable at high temperature, and are non-carcinogenic.
• the particles of the present invention can be used to block radiation in ultraviolet (UV) spectral band, defined herein as the radiation with the wavelengths between about 200 nm and about 400 nm, while substantially transmitting radiation in the visible band (VIS), defined herein as the radiation with the wavelengths between about 400 nm and about 700 nm.
• UV ultraviolet
• VIS visible band
• particles of the present invention can be dispersed in an otherwise clear carrier such as glass, polyethylene or polypropylene. The resulting radiation-absorbing material will absorb UV radiation while retaining good transparency in the visible region.
• a container manufactured from such radiation-absorbing material may be used, for example, for storage of UV-sensitive materials, compounds or food products.
• a film manufactured from a radiation-absorbing material can be used as coating.
• Suitable carriers for the particles of the present invention include, among others, polyethylene, polypropylene, polymethylmethacrylate, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and copolymers thereof as well as various glasses.
• PET polyethylene terephthalate
• a film or a gel, comprising ink or paints described above, are contemplated by the present invention.
• the particles of the present invention can be further embedded in beads in order to ensure a minimal distance between the particles. Preferably, beads are embedded individually in transparent spherical plastic or glass beads.
• Beads, containing individual particles can then be dispersed in a suitable carrier material.
• the particles of the present invention can also be used as highly effective UV filters. Conventional filters often suffer from "soft shoulder" spectral abso ⁇ tion, whereby a rather significant proportion of unwanted frequency bands is absorbed along with the desirable band.
• the particles of the present invention by virtue of the resonant abso ⁇ tion, provide a superior mechanism for achieving selective abso ⁇ tion.
• the color filters can be manufactured by dispersing the particles of the present invention in a suitable carrier, such as glass or plastic, or by coating a desired material with film, comprising the particles of the present invention.
• the present invention can furthermore be utilized to produce lotions that protect human skin against harmful UV radiation.
• the particles are uniformly dispersed within a pharmacologically safe viscous carrier medium, numerous examples of which are readily available and well known in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical arts.
• a pharmacologically safe viscous carrier medium numerous examples of which are readily available and well known in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical arts.
• particles with metallic cores and shells satisfactorily block UV radiation in the UVA, UVB and UVC spectral regions while transmitting light of longer, i.e. visible, wavelengths; such particles also exhibit little scatter when small enough, thereby avoiding an objectionable milky appearance.
• a gel or a lotion can be manufactured, for example, comprising the particles of the present invention.
• the present invention can also be utilized to produce UV radiation-absorbing wound dressing.
• the particles or a carrier, in which the particles are dispersed can be inco ⁇ orated in or deposed as a coating on a textile, textile-like, or a foam matrix, such as gauze, rayon, polyester, polyurethane, polyolefin, cellulose and its derivatives, cotton, orlon, nylon, hydrogel polymeric materials, or any suitable pharmacologically safe material.
• a textile, textile-like, or a foam matrix such as gauze, rayon, polyester, polyurethane, polyolefin, cellulose and its derivatives, cotton, orlon, nylon, hydrogel polymeric materials, or any suitable pharmacologically safe material.
• Such material can be used as a layer in multi-layer wound dressing or as an absorbent layer attached to a self-adherent elastomeric bandage. Combining particles of different types within the same carrier material is also contemplated by the instant invention.
• Cores and shells comprising metals and conducting materials, such as Al, Ag, Mg, TiN, HfN, and ZrN, as well as high-refracting index materials can be used to produce particles absorbing in UV band. Radiation-absorbing properties of the particles can be adjusted by independently selecting the material, radius and thickness of the core and the shell.
• This method uses a vacuum chamber with heated wall cladding in which materials used to manufacture cores are vaporized as spheres and encapsulated before being frozen cryogenically into a block of ice, where are collected later.
• the control means for arriving at monodispersed (uniformly sized) particles of precise stoichiometry and exact encapsulation thickness relate to laminar radially expanding flow directions, temperatures, gas velocities, pressures, expansion rates from the source, and percent composition of gas mixtures.
• a supply of titanium may be used, as an example. Titanium or other metallic material is evaporated at its face by incident CO 2 laser beam to produce metal vapor droplets.
• the formation of these droplets can be aided, for narrower size control, by establishing an acoustic surface wave across the molten surface to facilitate the release of the vapor droplets by supplying amplitudinal, incremental mechanical peak energy.
• the supply rod is steadily advanced forward as its surface layer is used up to produce vapor droplets.
• the latter are swept away by the incoming nitrogen gas (N ) that, at the central evaporation region, becomes ionized via a radio frequency (RF) field (about 2 kV at about 13.6 MHz).
• RF radio frequency
• the species of atomic nitrogen "N 4 " react with the metal vapor droplets and change them into TiN or other metal nitrides such as ZrN or HfN, depending on the material of the supply rod.
• the particles Due to vacuum differential pressure and simultaneous radial gas flow in the conically shaped circular aperture, the particles travel, with minimum collisions, first into a radially expanding conical orifice, and then into an argon upstream to reach several alternating cryogenic pumps which "freeze out” and solidify the gases to form blocks of ice in which the particles are embedded.
• the steps of particle formation are shown in Figure 16.
• metal vapor plus atomic nitrogen gas to form metal nitrides.
• By imparting onto the particles a temporary electric charge we can keep them apart, and thus prevent collisions, while beginning to grow a thin shell around the nitride core.
• silicon or TiO 2 can be used, wherein the thickness of the shell is controlled by the rate of supply of silane gas (SiH4) or a mixture of TiCl and oxygen, respectively.
• silane gas or a TiCl 4 /O 2 mixture are condensed on a still hot nanoparticle to form a SiO or TiO spherical enclosure around each individual particle.
• a steric hindrance layer of a surfactant such as, for example, hexamethyl disiloxane (HMDS)
• HMDS hexamethyl disiloxane
• Other surfactants can be used in water suspension.

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